Ch. XIII The French Lieutenant’s Woman

• Possession by Antonia Byatt (1990)

Ch. XIII The French Lieutenant’s Woman

• Grand Narratives• Jean François Lyotard, The Postmodern

Condition, 1979

Ch. XIII The French Lieutenant’s Woman

• Reader Response Criticism• Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser, Hans-Robert Jauss,

and Roland Barthes.

Ch. XIII The French Lieutenant’s Woman

• Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973)

• It was written in French (Le Plaisir du Texte) and later translated into English